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The Eric Carle Museum
of Picture Book Art
  • 125 West Bay Road
  • Amherst, MA 01002

Hours

  • Tue- Friday10 am - 4 pm
  • Saturday 10am – 5pm
  • Sunday 12 pm - 5 pm

 

Visit the carle

  • The Very Hungry Caterpillar Turns 50 is Open. More
  • Our Voice: The Coretta Scott King Illustrator Awards Opens in October More
  • Central Gallery Features A Marriage of Artistry: Leo and Diane Dillon More

News

  • Bobbie's Meadow Now Open! Photo by Jim Gipe/Pivot Media. © The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. Expand
    Bobbie's Meadow Now Open!
  • On view now until March 24 | The Very Hungry Caterpillar Turns 50 Eric Carle, Illustration for <i>The Very Hungry Caterpillar</i> (Philomel Books). Collection of Eric and Barbara Carle. © 1969, 1987 Eric Carle. Expand
    On view now until March 24 | The Very Hungry Caterpillar Turns 50
  • On view now until November 25 | A Marriage of Artistry: Leo and Diane Dillon Leo and Diane Dillon, Illustration for <i>Jazz on a Saturday Night,</i> (The Blue Sky Press). Collection of Diane Dillon. © 2007 Leo and Diane Dillon. Expand
    On view now until November 25 | A Marriage of Artistry: Leo and Diane Dillon
  • Opening October 21 | Our Voice: Celebrating the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Awards Christopher Myers, Illustration for <i>Harlem</i> by Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic Press). Courtesy of NCCIL. © 1997 Christopher Myers. Expand
    Opening October 21 | Our Voice: Celebrating the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Awards
  • Opening December 8 | Illustrated Owls: A Who&#039;s Hoo from the Museum&#039;s Vault Matthew Van Fleet, Illustration for <i>Heads</i> (Simon & Schuster). Gift of the artist. © 2010 Matthew Van Fleet. Expand
    Opening December 8 | Illustrated Owls: A Who's Hoo from the Museum's Vault
  • Opening February 10, 2019 | Out of the Box: The Graphic Novel Comes of Age Hope Larson, Illustration for <i>A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel</i>. © 2012 Hope Larson. Reprinted with permission from First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing Holdings Limited Partnership. All rights reserved. Expand
    Opening February 10, 2019 | Out of the Box: The Graphic Novel Comes of Age

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Ivor Wood, Illustration of Paddington, late 1970s. Courtesy of The Copyrights Group. © Paddington and Company Ltd. 2018.
October 20
Happier Family Comedy Show more
October 21
Our Voice: Gallery Talk with Ekua Holmes, Gordon C. James, and Jerry Pinkney more
November 3
Diwali Celebration, with Bharat Babies more
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